Dean Brackley, SJ, is a theologian on the faculty of the University of Central American in San Salvador, where he teaches ethics. Originally from the U.S., he has lived in El Salvador since 1990, when he went to help fill the gap left after the assassination of the six Jesuit professors of the UCA. He is the author of several books of theology, combining his academic duties with community work in the rural parish of Jayaque, El Salvador, and serving as parish priest in Las Palmas, San Salvador. He was a hit with the Corner Project kids, as you can see from the photo, during a visit to Malinalco in 2001. In addition to advising The Corner Project on organizational issues, he and the children write to each other via internet.

Edgar Cortez is executive secretary of the Mexican National Network of Human Rights Organizations (Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos "Todos los derechos para Todos") and former director of Mexico's Miguel Agustín Pro Human Rights Center. He is shown here with members of The Corner Project who participated in an organizational workshop he directed in Barrio San Juan in September, 2004.

Robert Ellsberg is publisher and managing editor of Orbis Books, a publishing company sponsored by the Maryknoll Brothers whose prize-winning books of theology include works by a wide range of spiritual leaders, including Thomas Merton, the Dalai Lama, Mohandas Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer. Robert is also known for his own thoughtful books about saints both modern and historic, including the prize-winning best seller, All Saints. His practical advice and kind encouragement have constituted a major source of help and inspiration to us in the artisanal publishing endeavors of the Corner Project's Imaginary Publishing Company.

Rafael Moreno Villa, SJ, has worked for decades in the defense of human rights for Latin America's disenfranchised, including his wartime service as assistant for social issues to El Salvador's beloved Monsignor Arnulfo Romero during the three years prior to his assassination that Monsignor Romero served as archbishop of San Salvador. He currently serves as assistant director of Mexico’s Jesuit Migrant Services and regional coordinator of the Jesuit Migrant Service network in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Roger Myerson is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose interest in Third World development issues brought him to contact his former classmate, Corner Project coordinator Ellen Calmus, about the possibility of visiting Malinalco during a trip to address an international meeting of economists in Mexico City. The Corner Project invited Roger to participate in a brief residency designed to consider problems of development that tend not to be as familiar to North American economists. Roger honored the Corner Project team by saying he felt he'd learned something during his Malinalco experience, even if he wasn't sure (yet) how to put it into his graphs. As you can see, Roger enjoyed his climb to the top of the ancient Aztec pyramid that overlooks the Malinalco valley.

Nelly Reyes, who migrated to the United States when she married a New York lawyer, is a San Francisco immigration consultant and former Assistant Director for Economic Information at Mexico City's American Chamber of Commerce. She participates in San Francisco's American Jewish World Service's philanthropic activities and advises The Corner Project on immigration issues.